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14 Apr 2008, 1:21 am

I was called a savant growing up, but i don't think i'm much of one anymore.



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14 Apr 2008, 8:12 am

Psycho_jimmy wrote:
Well, the same as above. It's not that I do know everything - I'm concerned that eventually I may, and what thereafter?


What thereafter? If you end up knowing everything about the universe, you will probably be considered God, and people will worship you. If not God, then the most important human who has ever lived.

Have you made any meaningful contribution to your field? How old are you? Make some discoveries and win a few award before you begin worrying about how bored you will be after you have learned everything science has to offer.



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14 Apr 2008, 8:24 am

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Quantum gravity by who's definition? Eager much for the Theory of Everything, eh? Or perhaps you refer to electron interaction between subatomic entities, inferring magnetic phenomena known as gravity?
Always found the quantum term misleading. Useful generality, not much else. Hardly specific.
Still, I agree - I am curious. I hope this sort of thing will present a challenge. I think I might work on this, see where I get.


Um. .

as far as I was aware, it's one of the great problems of modern physics; unifying gravity, a la Newton and Einstein and everyday life, with quantum theory--and particularly, with standard particle theory. Both theories have proven extremely reliable in experiment (none of this string theory, "anything can be true, we'll just add more variables" crap), but the standard model of particle physics simply leaves gravity out.


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20 Apr 2008, 3:06 pm

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Who here hates being a savant? My "power", if it can be called such, is well, thought, to put it bluntly. Rather, manner of thought - of reaching conlcusions.
Any question scientific, say, on physics or other such - no issue, no problem.
No challenge.

I'll admit; being a savant does have it's advantages - but where is the struggle and triumph?
Don't you hate having the answer just, well, manifest itself within your head - not even seconds after asking a question?
It's useful, yes - but insanely boring.


try challenging yourself in anyway you can think and maybe see if you can find a purpose for oyur savant skills :)



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20 Apr 2008, 5:03 pm

If one thing fails to challenge you, try harder things. Even if it means taking on challenges no one else has ever even attempted.

If your a true savant, then you could end up making discoveries that could shape the very future of humanity. And don't worry about being bored after you know everything. The fact is even if you answered one question a second for 100 years you wouldn't know 1% of all knowledge in the universe.


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21 Apr 2008, 1:55 am

C'mon, Psycho, you love it :)
If you're bored, attempt to use your will outside of your physical body. I never thought that could be scientifically possible. Now I know it's possible.

You should be able to effect people without touching them and without them seeing you, since I can be affected by people who I can't see, but are in my proximity. Those are NT's, and I can feel their thoughts and feelings directed at me occassionally - even when I don't know they're there. Actually, that's how I know they're there, because I can feel and sense their thoughts and feelings. So I turn around ... and yup, there's my landlord, thinking ugly things about me and it hit me right in the guts, from behind - and I knew who it was.
So, there's lots of amazingly difficult things still to do.

So tell me you're bored telepathically, and then I might actually believe it.

I don't even think anymore. I just know everything, now. That is not boring at all; it's wonderful and fascinating. I know more and more and it doesn't stop increasing. After finding out I was AS last year, after I accepted it ... after feeling entirely doomed ... I began to read the forums here and other things on the net, and I saw that I've been doing completely impossible things my entire life. Someone here can fix electronic items by looking at the patterns and putting something back into place in the pattern. Hmmm... haven't I always done inexplicable things like that???

I stopped thinking around 15 years ago, when it became painful to have to think while playing chess. So I stopped thinking while playing chess, and then I finally stopped thinking altogether.
Now, I just know things.

I fix the computers I build by looking at them. I don't have to open the computer. My friend witnessed me "fix his hard-drive" that was reading files incorrectly. I looked at his computer and told him his hard-drive was fine but that his memory stick was giving bad information to his hard-drive. I opened his computer, replaced the memory stick, and it worked fine there-after. He was in a state of shock, asking me how I could possibly have known that.
hmmm..
That IS the question, isn't it...

It isn't possible to know that.

What I didn't tell him was that Mr. Hard-drive told me he was a good hard-drive, and showed me how he was writing down all the information diligently, and reading everything dutifully, and that ... yes ... he was a good hard-drive. But Mr. Memory-Stick ... ahhh .. how naughty! .. was giving Mr. Hard-Drive incorrect information. So I replaced Mr. Memory-Stick with a memory stick from my computer - and everything was ok again in Mr. Computer.

Ok ... what's going on here??? Because I really don't know. But that is what happened and that is insane and impossible.

Mr. Hard-Drive??? I actually re-assured Mr. Hard-Drive that he was, in fact, a dutiful and good hard-drive. This is "Alice-in-Wonderland" ... or beyond any looking-glass.

Bored???

This is insanity, and not in the least boring but WTF is @%%(% impossible insanity how, how, how...???W?!?!?!?!? gzzt, gzzt, gzzt ...
The only thing I don't know ... is how do I know all these things?


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21 Apr 2008, 2:39 am

Oh gravity ...

Increase velocity to the speed of light and you get:
- zero time (zero duration)
- zero distance (no space)
- infinite mass ("mass" concept is actually "density" concept)

.. which leads us to an Instantaneous Singularity.

Gravity is the density of light when it's not being light, but being a multiplicity (the created Universe) instead of a Singularity (the Creator). Light pops out from matter, so gravity is just - partly - static light, which is very dense.

That's why light is both a wave and a particle. A wave while in motion, a particle while standing. Yes, it's technically both at the same time, but that's the trick of the Universe. There is no real multiplicity - that's the creation; there's only a Singularity. Mass is a trick ... and so is gravity. And so is distance. And so is time. But then gravity is a density of time and space. It's all fabricated, so there has to be a trick in there somewhere. The trick comes out in the fact that all instances of light are, subjective to light, a single phenomenon, but subjective to mass (gravity), a multiplicity.

So I stick my hand out the window while shining a flashlight on the wall. A quantum of light strikes my hand from a source of gravity 100 million light-years away. According to light, it is at both its source and its destination at the same time. There IS NO 100 million light-years ... no duration and no distance. Light connected two points though 100 million light-years together instantly.
No duration, no time, no distance, no space ... a single phenomenon.
So the light which left its source is, according to light, the same thing which is shining out my flashlight 100 million years later, somewhere very 'far' away.

Gravity doesn't fit into particle physics because gravity is just the concept of density. There is no actual "gravity". There's just the illusion of gravity - which is as necessary as the illusion of space and the illusion of time, neither of which are knowable by particle physics. Gravity is density: of light (energy), time, and space.

The problem is the concept of "mass". There is no such thing as mass. If you substitute the concept of "density" you'll see things better.

Density is not a phenomenon unto itself ... but an attribute.

So, instead of using the term "gravity", use the concept of the attribute of density of phenomenon. Use the tem "density of..."

Why does gravity attract? No, Einstein; density of space, time, and energy. Attribute of.

I did that without thinking, which is why it reads like a mess. I never knew what 'gravity' was before. I just realized that it didn't really exist and was simply an attribute of things that are known to exist. I just knew *poof*. Pretty cool, eh?
Dilemma solved. thank-you, thank-you.

Nobel prize, please???

Autistics have problems and require fixing, obviously.


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21 Apr 2008, 3:37 am

^Too long for me to read. Again, I really wish I was a savant or a geni at something. Then again, I really don't want to sound like one of those know it all professors. I hate it when someone brags about their IQ and claims what is and what isn't even if it hasn't been proven. Too much smarts along with a huge ego makes me think they really don't have a clue.


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21 Apr 2008, 2:21 pm

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^Too long for me to read. Again, I really wish I was a savant or a geni at something. Then again, I really don't want to sound like one of those know it all professors. I hate it when someone brags about their IQ and claims what is and what isn't even if it hasn't been proven. Too much smarts along with a huge ego makes me think they really don't have a clue.
You think correctly. A lot of the time I feel totaly clueless. When coworkers look at me funny when I "geek out" and start talking like a proffessor, it is very embarrasing. When I notice, I finish my sentence in a whisper and then say "Nevermind! Sorry about that bit of geeky-ness. I just can't help myself sometimes." Then conversations starts up again like normal.


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21 Apr 2008, 3:15 pm

I would call myself a savant, although the definition is very loose nowadays, so it's hard to know if you are one.

my "gift," so to speak, is numbers. You can give me an equation of any complexity, and I can find the solution by feel, if that makes any sense. Like, I see an answer in my head, and voice it. I've never been wrong so far, and in my experience, I'm as reliable as a calculator. :) I also have a gift for memorization, especially if it's a number. I feel like each number has a "personality" in relation to eachother, if that makes any sense :S but again, it's hard to explain what goes on in the mind of a savant. (If indeed I am one :S)



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21 Apr 2008, 3:22 pm

who could hate being a savant? to hate being a savant would be to hate being me. I know nothing else but me.



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21 Apr 2008, 5:02 pm

you could try applying quantum physics to prove that multiple dimesions or universes exist, or create the owrlds first hyper drive

just a thought, it is definetly something most people can not do. :)



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21 Apr 2008, 5:20 pm

he he, I don't think I would use Quantum Physics for that; most likely String Theory, but point taken.



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21 Apr 2008, 5:24 pm

I wish I were a creative savant sometimes, more of a Van Gogh than a Van de Graff. :D but numbers are my art, and I enjoy it, even if I can't exactly hang it on the wall.



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21 Apr 2008, 7:10 pm

Mudboy wrote:
MissConstrue wrote:
^Too long for me to read. Again, I really wish I was a savant or a geni at something. Then again, I really don't want to sound like one of those know it all professors. I hate it when someone brags about their IQ and claims what is and what isn't even if it hasn't been proven. Too much smarts along with a huge ego makes me think they really don't have a clue.
You think correctly. A lot of the time I feel totaly clueless. When coworkers look at me funny when I "geek out" and start talking like a proffessor, it is very embarrasing. When I notice, I finish my sentence in a whisper and then say "Nevermind! Sorry about that bit of geeky-ness. I just can't help myself sometimes." Then conversations starts up again like normal.


Then maybe I am a savant after all!! :cheers:


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21 Apr 2008, 7:16 pm

Psycho_jimmy wrote:
Who here hates being a savant? My "power", if it can be called such, is well, thought, to put it bluntly. Rather, manner of thought - of reaching conlcusions.
Any question scientific, say, on physics or other such - no issue, no problem.
No challenge.


I'll admit; being a savant does have it's advantages - but where is the struggle and triumph?
Don't you hate having the answer just, well, manifest itself within your head - not even seconds after asking a question?
It's useful, yes - but insanely boring.


Why don't you unify Quantum Physics with String Theory with General Relativity?